April 2024 Status Report - with a bit of May (Patreon)

Well this is way later than I planned on, with all the bug fixing and assorted stuff after that I kind of spaced doing this when I meant to.

Also will mention the art repo has been updated with the new assets from the update, for 5$+ patrons as per normal.

April started off with the MBD update which I mildly had to rush with how days fell on a weekend, and me also thinking that April first was on the Tuesday not the Monday, like a dumbo. And with Otani being very busy I didn't get to do what I was originally rolling around in my head, maybe next year I'll do that. I hope people enjoyed the few extra scenes in it and the 2 erotic scenes.

Then the rest of this month was primarily getting the arcade's dialogue scenes, the ticket rewards, and minigames all working, there was lots of thinking and planning involved. The snake game was an especially fun 2 day adventure to make. (It's stutter issues will be fixed in the next update thanks to feltcutemightcleanlater btw.) I also think some of the art assets like DP cg were added in that month? I think?

For the minigames as well, the slime parade game almost ended up snake-like game of Imp Conga or Wurm [Jora munching gold and stuff] before I settled on the slimes given their colorful assets and fruit eating habits. I was also originally going to add more stat check based games like impchinko, but after making it I realized it would run into a number of issues that would make them unpleasant to play and make outside of the luck version itself. Originally Fertillia Fertillia was going to be Labyrinth but literally pac-man, but eventually when doing edits to some stuff with Val I decided to shift it to more of a ninja theme, which I think worked as an odd stealth pac-man thing, though I also feel like using the labyrinth system might be holding it back for how fun it could have been. But hopefully people have enjoyed them to some extent. I also wouldn't mind adding more minigames in the Arcade at some point, but they are not even remotely a priority.

I did also lose about four days of work time last month to surprise family visit time. But the update was still completed on time at least in a state I wasn't unhappy with. Though I really want to add sex for the Livewire shopkeep.

Next is/was lots of bug fixing and QoL stuff, then once that's settled it's likely going to be adding more sex scenes? But otherwise now that the entrance district to the capital has been made I now have multiple different ways to go for more capital content [Aphrodesia district, alleyways, and other options], it will take a bit before the quest for the Int Sigil can be set up properly in it but it will get there, the intention is when you re-enter the city after the initial intro with DP there will be a scene explaining how to get the Int Sigil, but as you can't get it or really progress in that task yet I wanted to avoid leaving a hanging thread there and instead want to get enough of the city set up for it so you can actually get it before I add the 'quest' scene.

Though this month [May] has so far been a lot of fixing stuff so far, and also taking post update break time to not over work after the hot fix rush that occurred. But there will still be another update this month.